Cable hitch



G. C. BURD CABLE HITCH Filed May 5. 1927 I INVENTQR German C. Burd- BY Patented Feb. 28, 1928. i i V v If UNITED STATES. PATENT GORMAN cIBUnn, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, assrenon To aia'nnronn CABLE comrAnY, a CORPORATION on new YORK.

CABLE HITCH.

Application filed May 5, 1927. Serial No. 189,062.

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V This invention relates to acable hitch and body of the cable is caught between lugs 3 more particularly to a type of hitch or grip and 4-. The bar 1 is then swung until the 45 I adapted for use in forming a sling for hoistlug 2 engages the cable. The cable 6 is now, mg building materials, such as beams. held in a tortuous path which provides sufiii Among other uses it may be used as a towcient friction to prevent the hitch from 4o side.

line or for the. ends of a guy wire and the slipping so long as the strain on .the table like. is uniform.

The principal object is to provide a hitch It will be apparent from the above that which may be used to quickly form a nonthis form ofv hitch provides a strong and 10 slipping loop. 7 Alfurther object is to provide ardevice which will be capable of sustaining'considwhich will be strong in structure and caerable strain due to the strong integral fast- 55 pable of sustaining a considerable strain. ening between the steel of the bar and the A clear conception of the construction, opcable and to the action of the lugs. eration and further objects of the invention 7 I claim: i

may be had from the following specification 1. In a hitch of the type described a bar simple method of forming loops in cable in conjunction with the accompanying drawhaving a plurality of lugs formed thereon 69 I ings in which in staggered relation, said bar having its Fig. 1 discloses the invention in plan end portion bent away from the plane of view, in use as'a guy wire; the bar, but lying in a plane parallel to said Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. lugs,a cable secured in said end portion in The now preferred form. of invention such a manner as to be integral therewith, as I comprises a steel bar 1 with lugs 2, 321ml 4 said lugs. holding the free end of said cable formed thereon. The bar 1 is shaped as in non-slipping engagement when-a strain shown, having its end portion 5 bent away is placed on a loop formed thereby.

from the plane of the body of the bar. In 2. In a hitch of the type described a bar the end 5 is secured by any well known having a plurality of lugs formed thereon Tc I means the end of a cable 6 in such a. manner in staggered relation, said lugs having that the metal of the bar is forced into the notches cut therein, said notches in thc'outer interstices of the strands of the cable, therelugs facing inone direction, said notches in by making the cable an integral part of the the center lug facing in the opposite direcbar 1. tion, said bar having an end portion bent 2'5 The lugs 2, 3 and 4 on the body portion away'from the horizontal planeof said bar, of bar 1 are positioned as shown in a staga cable secured in said end portion in such gered relation and their faces are notched to a manner that the metal of said bar is' prevent the cable 6 from slipping out of conforced into the interstices of the strands of tact therewith. These notches are cut in said cable thereby forming an integral joint, I

' one side of the two outer lugs While the said lugs holding the free end of saidcable notch in the center lug is cut on the opposite to form a non-slipping loop when strain is V placed thereon. i In operation the cable 6 is passed around In testimony whereof, I have signed this the object to be lifted or. to which the cable specification. 1 y

is to be attached, such as pole 7 and the v v GORMAN G. BURD.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,660,829. Granted February 28, 1928, to

GORMAN 0. Bone.

It is hereby certified that the name of the assignee in the above numbered patent was erroneously described and specified as "American Cable Company, a corporation of New York", whereas said name should have been described and specified as American Cable (10., a corporation of Delaware, as shown by the records of assignments in this office; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record or the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 17th day of May, A. D. 1932.

M. J. Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

